The Utah Republican, who just gave up his House seat to join Fox News, was one of Hillary Clinton’s most persistent tormentors during the 2016 campaign, digging into the Democratic nominee’s email-server scandal and other Clinton controversies.

The other two were certifiable disasters, and on a night in which the Astros ace and Yankee tormentor Dallas Keuchel was particularly vulnerable, turned out to be the difference between unlikely victory and gut-wrenching defeat.

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